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Let us kneel !
I continue to worship at the altar that is Mad Men. This episode just brought in the formal religion. It threw me a little to see Tom Hanks' son .... but quickly realized he was a younger version of the Carmela Sopranos' priest (w/the fawning females & non-stop food). So similar, being flirty with women although he of course can't act on it. Peggy's sister is a piece of work.
Meanwhile, did anyone else get the prevalence of *kneeling* in this episode? First it's Bobbi's coat on the floor (for the obvious reason) .... then Sal's ad to woo stewardesses .... & the underlying thread of church throughout.
Interesting that Roger now has to pay for it .... let's hope there's some left to pay for his daughter's non-wedding. Sterling Cooper will continue to be interesting, as Duck's "connections" come & go. Loved Don's "stillborn baby" comment, & the look on his face when he slid Shel's book over to Duck. Also loved Joan's comment about Sally "making more than any of them" on a Sunday. But my Line of the Night was Don's "Mommy says you broke the Hi-Fi ... I believe her ... don't do that again"!
But the main theme, as the title "Three Sundays", I thought was well done. I'm loving the peeling back of layers on the Draper household. I loved their do-nothing Sunday with the heavy-handed coctails (is it any wonder Sally went for the glass?) & skipped dinner. Who knows if Don will reveal more about his father to Betty, but in the meantime, his comments about being smacked around will hopefully get her off of poor Bobby's back for a while. More to come, of course .... I'll be drinking it up. More please!
Yeah, I loved all the kneeling too. I wish I could remember my parents marriage a little better. It wasn't as dark and odd as Betty and Don seem to have, but the immaturity was there. I also remember waiting til my Dad got home to punish too. He was always too tired and defeated by my mother's anger to really do much more than Don does.
Betty and Don are learning as they go along
I see Betty and Don headed for the edge of a cliff, frankly! However, MM seems to be turning into evening soap opera instead of the great character studies of last season, at least to me.
One other thought .... remember when Betty asked Don if he'd be "the man he is today" if his father hadn't hit him? WOW!
Did anybody else see a striking resemblance between the young priest and Pete Campbell? I couldn't decide whethere it was intentional on the part of Matt Weiner or just coincidence but they look like they could be brothers.
As for Peggy's sister, can you say passive aggressive? She knew exactly what she was doing in the confessional, filling in the young priest about Peggy's "problem."
In the Catholic faith, is it unusual for a priest to 'let on' he knows something based on what he learned in a confessional? Another poster revealed the signifigance of the blue egg (that would have gotten by me, too), and an interview of Elizabeth Moss (Peggy) stated that it was like getting hit in the face when he handed it to her and walked away. (She sure was distant from that cute little boy toddling around trying to get the hidden Easter treats.)
Why would the priest act this way when he and Peggy were developing a real bond? Was he building a mental image of her that is now sullied? He couldn't develop anything physical with her, so why would he care?
The man is a priest. Even if we allow for the degradation my church has gone through (justly) in the past few, a good priest cares and listens and does what he can to help. We saw (so far) a good priest trying to help. He cares because that's what his duty is supposed to be. I'm a lapsed Catholic but I can appreciate the dedicated priest or nun or religious worker of any faith who really does try to live up to the incredible standards. Some actually do and I'm proud to know a few if them. Hopefully we're seeing one here and he will help (or try to) rather than exploit Peggy.
of them, pardon me...
I think Betty is simply parroting what she's been told about the need to hit one's male child to "make a man of him". Hearing Don's anguish seems to have shocked her into a more adult attitude.
Albert Speer records a night with his rather eccentric boss, Adolf Hitler where the subject came up and Hitler went on about his father's beatings. Walter Frick, one of the more colorless Nazis in the circle then nervously suggested that it was a great thing that Der Fuehrer's dad Alois had beaten him so much since it...ummn...made such a great man of...ummn...him...
Goebbels is then said to have cut in with "It's easy to see you were never beaten in your youth, Frick."